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To: RoosterRedux
“Western values of right and wrong are Judeo/Christian.”

Makes for some very interesting contemplation. If one took 75 ‘robots’ and programmed 25 with “turn the other cheek” Christian values, 25 with “eye for an eye” values, and 25 with Islamic Sharia / Jihadi values, and then had them ‘compete’ with one another, what would happen? I'm sure this could be modeled with a computer program.

My thoughts are that those with an aggressive more selfish defining ideology have a short to moderate term advantage in society - which is why too many of them achieve positions of power. Over the longer term, however, the behavior is destructive - which is why we have progressed out of the Middle Ages (most of the world anyway).

8 posted on 10/15/2014 4:09:07 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: pieceofthepuzzle
IIRC, the "eye for an eye" admonition was for the nation of Israel as a whole as regards to how legal justice should be meted out and NOT a rule for individual behavior.
12 posted on 10/15/2014 5:10:02 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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